Karolinska Institutet May 9 2025 Pregnant women with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) have an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and the risk increase cannot be explained by obesity, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal eClinicalMedicine . It is estimated that one in five people in Sweden has MASLD, previously called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease , and globally it may be as many as three out of ten. Common risk